is it possible to be raped but not remember it? my friend confessed to me that she thinks she might have been raped when she was a kid, because of a few images in her head and this feeling she gets sometimes, but she has no memories of actually being raped at all. she is 99% percent sure she wasn't, but she has this unshakeable feeling, and in addition she thinks it would explain why she is lgbt. i tried to comfort her but honestly i had no idea what to say, seems a little absurd, but maybe its possible idk.
Maybe she's just retarded. Being LGBT isn't born from trauma.
>>43808336everyone is raped at birth, either by jewish doctors or your parents, stop gatekeeping
>>43808336This happened to me, I wasn’t able to remember the assault until I was like 40, Your sub conscious suppresses it until you’re ready to remember but that feeling of “there is something there I just can’t remember it” is a tell tale sign that it’s buried in there somewhere
>>43808378she's kinda retarded lol. but she's a good friend, i've known her since before she transitioned.>>43808411oh so it is possible, how were you able to remember, should i try to help her remember if it happened?
>>43808336Of course it can happen. I was one of them. I was also dysphoric with feminine boy behaviors and features with queer attractions years before it happened so the isolation and social outcast from that absolutely made me the easy target. Anywho. These talks always just lead to smug gloating or people trying to find a causality between queer individuals and csa to justify their trans or homophobia where often there is none.
>>43808336yes it's possible but also the whole "repressed memories" thing is very unreliableit's just as likely that she dreamed it as she forgot it
>>43808464im sorry that happened to you, i'm not saying there is a link, just repeating what she said. she blames herself for a lot of things which are not her fault. and being a victim of rape would be another thing she could blame herself for. at least that's why i think she feels that way.>>43808477any advice? i feel sorry for her desu. she lost most of her friends when she transitioned.
>>43808513Oh I'm sure there are many things people would love if I blamed myself for. That's how victim abuse and gaslighting works. I'm just a small fish in a big pond and few will ever see those last bubbles.
>>43808513it doesn't really matter if it did or did not happen at this point, she's just looking for reasons to be sad
>>43808590Maybe some of us spend so long trying to find happy and end up getting kicked in the face because of that, sad is easier to find some truth in.
It's possible but it is incredibly uncommon. I have a genuine repressed memory, like confirmed years later by multiple people this huge thing happened but I have a hole in a stream of otherwise unbroken childhood memories where it should be. but I also have a shitton of other memories of being abused that are like regular style, lol.
